The switch to daylight savings time

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Apr10.114836.10816 at convex.com> andy at piziali.lonestar.org (Andy Piziali) writes:
> I am running IBM Xenix 1.0, a Microsoft Xenix 3.0 derivative,

We're running Xenix 3.5 here.

> My question is: are the two dates which delimit the period of the year DST is
> in effect hard coded into the kernel and could these dates have differed from
> the current dates at the time this Xenix was written?

Yes, and yes.

Every year, twice a year, we change TZ from CST6CDT to CDT5, and reboot
the computers (or just log everyone out and restart cron).
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